The title of the book is vox populi which is also the topic of course that is not a new idea in latin means the voice of the people the old adage vox populi the voice of the people and the voice of god often used in history not only to attack monarchs but those people who say such nonsense. The idea of populism is also not new to America William Jennings Bryan or the roosevelt or Andrew Jackson previously Ronald Reagan were recently not surprisingly popular consent there has been a tension between popular government and Constitutional Government with that sense of the demagogues. So populism abounds from ancient rome to england and elected as president on a populist revolt so our speakers will speak for about five minutes and to have discussion afterwards. We will be joined by Michael Anton but we will start the first speaker is Roger Kimball editor and publisher of new criterion and publisher of encounter books. It also responsible for all of this and other great things published by a
Good evening. Welcome. Happy new year. I am david azerrad, dean of hillsdale college, welcome to the center for constitutional studies and citizenship which is our campus in the nations capital. This event is sponsored by real clear politics, realclearpolitics. Com. David dozier who is hiding in the back is the publisher, jan mcintyre, the cofounder is with us as well. Our discussion deals with a collection of essays the list on the 35th anniversary of the new criterion magazine in which those essays were originally published, the title of the book is vox populi the perils promises of populism. Which is also our topic. That is not a new idea. The voice of the people is the voice of god which was often times use not only to attack monarchs but to attack the people who says such nonsense. It is not new to america, andrew jackson, previously. Not surprising in a regime of popular consent and you any quality. There has always been tension between popular covenant and constitutional governm
College here in washington d. C. Welcome to the center for constitutional studies in constitutional ship. We are cosponsored by clear politics. Com and i recognize david hiding in the back. He is the publisher and jen mcintyre of the co founder who will be here as well. Our discussion deals with a collection of essays in which the essays were originally published. The perils and promises of populism. It is not a new idea in latin means the voice of the people. The voice of the people is the voice of god which is often time used in history to attack monarchs and attacked the people who said such nonsense. The idea of populism is not new to america. Thats pricing in a regime of popular consent but theres always been somewhat of attention between popular government and constitutional government, the potential of populist demagogues. Hence promise and peril. Populism abounds from agent rome to brexit england and donald trump are elected as president on a populist revolt. Our speakers will
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